Mucilage-jar.



UNITED STATES Patented September 29,

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MU ClLAG E-JAR.

SPEGIFIGATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 739,970, dated September 29, 1903. Application filed November 10, i902; Serial No. 130,672. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ZIMME'RMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mucilage-Jars, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which-- f Figure 1 shows a plan view of my said new device having a part of its top removed to show the parts under it and the interior of the jar. Fig. 2 shows my said device in central vertical section. Fig. 3 shows the brushwiper in perspective with a brush in it. Fig.

t shows the cap or cover of the jar, which also serves as a brush-holder. Fig. 5 shows a cut ring forming. a part of said cap, Fig. 5, in plan view. Fig. 6 shows the jar-cover in central vertical section with a cork in its neck.

Like reference-letters denote like parts in all the figures.

The object of my invention is to produce a mucilage bottle or jar provided with a brush, a brush-stripper, a cover for the brush-opening, a cover for the jar, and other conveniences, as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

To attain said desired ends, my said jar a is made of oval interior form, having its smallest point I) at the bottom of the jar and its top end I) coned upwardly and .outwardly with a longer or shorter cone from a point or 'circle b, as shown. The object of said coning is to cause the spring-wire brush-stripper 0V to rise or creep upward by means of its form and spring action in said coned part. The object of making the interior of said jar of substantially oval shape is to cause the contained material to be in a constantly-compact body, which will thereby be leastaffected by evaporation and which may be kept in working condition until the last drop of mucilage is exhausted. V

A bead d surrounds the outer top surface of the jar, and onto it is crimped the edge of a metal cover e, which rises from said bead in any suitable profile to about the line or circle 2', from which the profile of said cover is changed to a concave form j and rises to thetop, where it is joined to or forms a part of a neck f, which descends into said cover and at its lower end is provided with an inturned stop .or flange g, on which a cork It stops.

The brush-stripper c is arched upward and is highest at the point where it comes in contact with the flange g. The spurs 7o on the ends of the arms Z of the stripper c bear. against the coned interior surface I), through which and said arched form the stripper tends to rise out of the jar, it being made of springwire for that purpose and formed of either two wires or a single wire doubled at the middle and twisted together to a point just Within said neck f from which the free single arms Z spread into the directions as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. tion said stripper is always kept in contact with the bottom of the neck f, or, in case said neck is not provided, then the outer ends of the arms Z will be held in place by contact with the cover c. Mucilage will not accumulate and dry on said stripper because the wire is thin, and consequently the material will drop off before it can become dry.

The neck f serves to hold a cork h to close 'of the curves rests on the-neck f, and from the top of said cover and as a part of it descends a'split tube 0, form'inga neck which has one or more slots 19 at its free end and is also provided at said end with an annular open ring serving as a spring q, whereby the handle 0' of the brush sis held frictionally. When the handle 1' is placed as indicated by the broken outlines and allowed to sink, the cover 'm will finally be supported on the cover 6 below the line 1'. By the weight of the brush and lidsaid parts willtend to right themselves and ultimately cause said cover to close the jar. So, also, where the edge of said cover an does not rest within the neck f it will slip down on the concave profile surface 3' to about the point of ICO the circle 2' and then again right itself by gravity, as before.

The jar a and its cover 6 are here shown in their preferred formnamely, a stamped sheet-metalcoverhavingitsouteredgecrimped on a bead (Z of the jar; but it is not essential that the cover 6 is of metal nor that it is fastened on a bead when there are other ways to make said fastening. The oval interior, tapering toward the bottom, causes the brushhandle to assume a suffieiently-vertical position to give the handle and its attached cover a tendency to assume the normal position,

I which thereby reduces the labor of adjusting the brush in the 'jar beyond the points described and shown in the position of the brushhandle in broken outlines, and therebyreduces the exacting task of replacing the brush and closing the jar to less than it has been in the old forms of such devices.

Vhat I claim is 1. The combination with a jar provided with a fixed cover having an opening surrounded by an upwardly-projecting concaved profile, of said cover, of a cover for said opening having an erect ogee interior profile and provided withacentral opening, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a jar provided with a fixed cover having an opening surrounded by an upwardly-pro j ectin g concayed profile, of a cover having an erect ogee internal profile provided with a central opening and an adjustable brush-holding device, substantially as specified.

3. The combination with a jar provided with a fixed cover having an opening surrou nded by an upwardly-proj ecting eoncaved profile, of a cover having an erect ogee internal profile provided with a central opening having a split tube in said opening, substantially as specified.

4. The combination with a jar provided with a fixed cover having an opening provided with an extended neck,of a cover to said neck having a central opening, substantially as specified.

5. The combination with a jar provided with a fixed coverhaving an opening provided with an extended and flanged neck, of a cover to said neck having an opening provided with a neck, substantially as specified.

6. The combination with a jar provided with a fixed cover having an opening and neck thereto, of a cover to said neck having an opening provided with a s n'ing-actuated neck, substantially as specified.

7. The combination with a jar having a conical upper interior and a multiple-armed brush-wiper in said conical part, of a cover fixedly held to said jar, havinga central opening, substantially as specified.

8. The combination with an interiorly-ooned jar provided with a multiple-armed brushwiper in said coned part, of a cover fastened to said jar having an opening provided with a cover having a central opening, substan-- tially as specified.

9. The combination with a jar having a conical upper interior, a brush-wiper in said conical part provided with a series of arms, of a fixed cover with an opening having a cover provided with a handle-ad j ustin g mechanism, substantially as specified.

10. The combination with a jar having its interior coned, of an arched and forked brushwiper, and a fixed cover, having a brushopening, to hold said wiper in place, substantially as specified.

11. The combination with a jar having an upwardly-coned interior, of a brush-wiper having spurred arms, and a fixed cover, having a brush-opening, to hold said wiper in place, substantially as specified.

12. The combination with a jar having an upwardly coned interior, and a forked, springy, brush-wiper in said interior, of a cover, havinga brush-opening, to hold said wiper in place, substantially as specified.

13. The combination with a jar having a multiple-armed brush-wiper, of a cover to said jar having an opening, and a removable cover with an opening provided with a neck, substantially as specified.

14. The combination With a jar having a coned interior, a springy brush-wiper in said interior, a jar-cover, with a brush-opening, to confine said wiper, of a cover for said jarcover, provided with means for frictionally holding a brush handle, substantially as specified.

15. The combination with a jar having an upwardly coned interior and a multiplearmed, arched, springy, brush-wiper, of a cover with an openinghaving a flanged neck to hold said wiper at its center and at its ends, substantially as specified.

16. The combination with a jar having an upwardly coned interior and a multiple armed, arched, springy, brush-wiper in said interior, of a jar-cover having an opening provided with a flanged neck, and a cover to said eover-openinghavinga compression-neck and a brush-handle therein, substantially as specified.

17. The combination with a jar having its interior conical at its larger end and a multiple-armed, spurred, arched and springybrushwiper in said conical part, of a cover to said jar and wiper having an opening provided with a flanged neck and a cover to said neck having a neck with mechanism for adjusting a brush-holder, substantially as specified.

18. The combination with a jar having a bead at its top and exterior, of a cover held by said bead, an opening in said cover, a cover to said opening and a brush-holder to said free cover, substantially as specified.

19. The combination with a jar, a forked brush-wiper in said jar, a fixed cover to said jar, and a brush-opening in said cover, of a opening in said cover, of a free cover to said cover to said cover-opening, and a brushcover-opening and'a brush-handle in said handle in said free cover, substantially as free cover, substantially as specified.

specified. WM. ZIMMERMAN. 5 20. The combination with a jar, a brush- Witnesses:

Wiper in said jar, a fixed cover to said jar to GEO. E. DAWSON,

hold said several parts together, and a brush- CHAS. R. WHITMAN. 

